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Cholera, Malaria Cases Increase in Helmand
Health officials in Afghanistan's southern Helmand...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province said the incidence of cholera and malaria is on the rise. Head of the provincial health department Yar Mohammad Naseri said that with the onset of more dry and increasingly hot weather, the number of cases of serious diarrhoea has also risen. He said that the residents are not taking enough precautionary hygiene measures. He also emphasised that to protect people from malaria infections, the health department has distributed mosquito nets for the residents in the past few years, despite suggestions that the government had not done enough to prevent the disease.
As the summer temperatures rise, particularly in southern provinces of the country, Naseri said people should consider taking more steps in terms of hygiene. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-07-15 |
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